Newsnight state of the race. Laura coates live starts right now been arrested cnn is learning he was taken into custody by federal agents at a manhattan hotel tonight. Now its unclear what the specific charges are against them or what they might be, but he has been the subject of a federal investigation into Sex Trafficking for months. Which of Course Led to a Highprofile Search of his homes in l. A. And also in Miami Hes also facing multiple civil lawsuits, nine directly accusing him of sexual assault. One was from his ex girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, who we sell with the november and back in may, federal investigators are preparing to bring some of his accusers before a federal Grand Jury for testimony did his lawyers say the rapper moved to New York last week in anticipation of being charged and said in a statement, quote, we are disappointed with the decision to pursue what we believe is an unjust Prosecution Shouldnt Mr. Combs, by the u. S attorneys office. I want to bring in john m
Court for the donald trump legal team, who won, who lost, and the comments the judge made that the former president might not want to hear. Also, a former army officer who was an adviser to the Trump Administration explained why his blood ran cold after reading jack smiths latest indictment. Plus, the Vice President talks exclusively to msnbcs Reverend Al Sharpton amid new revelations about her role in the 2024 campaign. Campaign. As i bid you all a very good day from msnbc World Headquarters in new york, welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. Were beginning this hour with some staggering the numbers. About the wildfires of this devastated murray this past week. The math now says it will cost five and a half billion dollars to be built from hawaiis governor says. We will likely be the worst Natural Disaster in the states history. So, he comes as many residents return to assess whats left, if anything, of their homes. Officials say more than 2200 buildings were destroyed. That majorit
electors are given marching orders. the plan expands across seven states, and we hadn t seen that. before so, we worked a bunch of sources and eventually, we were able to get a copy of that document, publish it, at the new york times. and it really is extraordinary in how reluctant but lawyers working on it is. i don t even necessarily endorse this, and this probably would fail in front of the supreme court. and i agree. it s controversial. we might have to keep parts of this very quiet. but they go ahead and implement it anyway, so, it s a key moment in the evolution of the fake electors plan. and we were able to expose it for the first time. let me ask you quickly, look. political reporting that the d.c. brand jury met again this week, focusing on trump safe america pack. testimony being from character was questioned about fundraising from january six. what are you hearing about why this grand jury is still
his testimony. whether it would ever come to his testimony being in court or somewhere else, i just don t know. but that s certainly the way mccabe ceasees it. pete, does this investigation go forward in terms of how partisan it is? is there anything you see that can derail it? well, i don t think it s any more partisan today than it was yesterday or the day before in terms of all the things being said about it. so no, i don t think this is going to have a big effect on the mueller investigation. i think they re well aware of all the events that we re now hearing about. to the extent that mccabe has notes and things that he can say, i m sure he s already said them to the special counsel. i would be very surprised if he hasn t. of course, geoff, the president praising this decision on twitter to fire mccabe. any sense of the mood in the white house right now? reporter: well, folks in the west wing are referring to all questions about this to the president s outside counsel. we o
only thing that will make the story go away is a full investigation. and a full report that documents the level of contact, what was sgued, and when by various trump administration officials. there are too many questions to not have afternoon investigation at this point. and so it would be improper.inv at this point. and so it would be improper. and question is will it be independent. it only took the embarrassment of sessions testimony being exposed for him to recuse himself for investigating a campaign that he was involved in. so we have to look at the integrity of the investigation going forward. and the president and his team have been saying that they will roll out a new version, a tweaked version of the travel ban, but now it hasn t happened. what could be the hold up there? well, i think that this is an extremely complicated policy that needs to pass legal muster. they were slapped down in about court previously, the travel ban